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EPA:
Continued From Page 1 vote on a budget that would cut 7 percent, or $.5 billion from the EPA, which would “devastate the agency,” Pallone said. The New Jersey coastal community would be particularly vulnerable, he said. “It’s not too late,” Pallone said. The cuts were connected to the idea that jobs and the environment can’t go together, “but that’s totally false.” “When I was elected to Congress in 1988, the beaches up and down New Jersey were closed because of garbage, toxic waste and medical waste in the water, and the state lost millions of dollars in jobs,” he said. Pallone said he wanted to address offshore drilling, which President Trump has moved to expand, and would include areas left out by President Obama, which include the Atlantic Coast and U.S. Arctic waters. “They feel they should be able to drill anywhere,” Pallone said. “They’re big on fossil fuels, but we should be focusing on renewable energy, like wind and solar.” “The cuts are an effort to dismantle the EPA, and that would manifest itself in so many ways,” he added. Pallone said that Scott Pruitt, who Trump chose to run the EPA, does not consult with any of the agency’s employees. “The EPA should be the most transparent department in government, because people have the right to know and to be empowered to learn and deal with pollution,” Pallone said. “The EPA has become a secret body, and that goes against the whole idea of
–Photo by Judy Smestad-Nunn Jeff Tittel, director of the NJ Sierra Club, speaks out against proposed cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency at a press conference at the Mantoloking Bridge County Park. environmental protection.” Zach McCue, who represented Cory Booker, read a statement from the senator, who had a scheduling conflict. “The Trump administration values ideology and misinformation over protecting the environment,” he read. Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, and his agenda is “taking our nation backwards. We can’t sit idly by as the rest of the world addresses climate change. Enough is enough,” wrote Booker. Brick Mayor John G. Ducey said cuts to the EPA budget would affect the health, safety and welfare of all residents. Locally, EPA funds allow for the monitoring of the drinking water, the beaches,
and the ground water that runs from the superfund site on Sally Ike Road. “We have a superfund site because there was no monitoring and no care, because there wasn’t the knowledge. Now we have the knowledge, so the superfund site has been capped and redeveloped as a solar farm,” Ducey said. Jeff Tittel, director of the NJ Sierra Club, said Trump has declared war on the environment with his budget cuts and it would have a disastrous effect in New Jersey. Some of the programs that would be eliminated include pollution testing for coastal waters, the elimination of the National Estuaries Program, the elimination of climate, clean water and superfund programs, and more, he said. “We are here today to say to President Trump, ‘hands off our environment.’ We’re here to stand up and say not anymore,” Tittel said. “No drilling off our coast. We want clean energy for a clean environment. Don’t turn science into political science,” he said. Mayor Bill Curtis of Bay Head agreed. “Offshore drilling would destroy our beaches. One oil spill would affect all ecological factions in our ocean. Cut other areas, not areas that affect our environment,” he said. Other attendees included Ed Potosnak, NJ League of Conservation Voters, Point Pleasant Beach Mayor Steve Reid; Lavallette Council President Anita Zalom; Brick Councilman Jim Fozman; Cindy Zipf and Dave Pringle, Clean Ocean Action; Britta Wenzel, Save Barnegat Bay; Tim Dillingham, American Littoral Society; Doug O’Malley, Environment NJ; Junior Romero, Food & Water Watch; Sandra Meola, NY/NJ Baykeeper; Trisha Sheehan, Moms Clean Air Force.
Trees:
Continued From Page 1 trees had been causing tripping hazards and that dead branches had continually fallen on vehicles and in close proximity to houses. He believed that there had been an inspection prior to them being cut down, but said he would need to check on that before confirming. “I was told these were hazardous trees,” added Deputy Mayor Robert Nicastro, “According to our ordinance, trees that do create a hazard are exempt from a permit and that’s the extent that I know.” Howell’s Township Code states the “removal of trees by homeowner which are dead, dying or diseased or trees which suffered severe damage or any tree or trees whose angle or growth makes them a hazard to structures or human life” as an exception. Noyes said it all started when a tree limb fell and hit a Village resident’s car and left a dent, and since then, that resident has been trying to get the tree taken down. Three trees have been cut down so far, one of which she said tried to regrow its branches and leaves while it felled. Noyes feels that if you’re a resident in The Villages and you don’t like a tree, you can have it taken down for no reason. She and Apgar were labeled as “tree huggers” during Villages landscape meetings when they asked to be informed about any future removal of large trees in the community. Community Management Corporation, the managing agent for The Villages, did not return a message seeking comment by press time.
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